MLKMF vs HELE vs COTY Stock Comparison

Waldencast, Helen Of Troy and Coty Prices as of Oct 27, 2026 Peers: Industry group
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MLKMF Waldencast plc
$0.88 -14.6% 1M -54.4% 1Y
Market cap
$92.40M
P/E
–
Revenue (TTM)
—
Div. yield
–
Cosmetics Consumer Staples
HELE Helen Of Troy Ltd
$29.20 +2.0% 1M +45.7% 1Y
Market cap
$667.98M
P/E
–
Revenue (TTM)
$1.83B
Div. yield
–
Home Appliances Consumer Discretionary
6 wins
COTY Coty Inc.
$3.31 +25.4% 1M -19.3% 1Y
Market cap
$2.93B
P/E
–
Revenue (TTM)
$5.81B
Div. yield
0.00%
Cosmetics Consumer Staples
4 wins

Head to Head

10 decided of 12

Helen Of Troy leads on 6 of the 12 questions below (Helen Of Troy 6, Coty 4). Which ones matter depends on what you are buying for; a cheap multiple and slow growth often come together.

QuestionMLKMFHELECOTYLeader
Larger companyMarket capitalisation $92.40M $667.98M $2.93B COTY
Cheaper on earningsLower P/E, profitable companies only — -6.7x -4.7x –
Cheaper on forward earningsLower price / next fiscal year consensus EPS — 7.8x 11.0x HELE
Faster revenue growthRevenue growth, trailing twelve months — +0.3% -1.5% HELE
More profitableNet margin, trailing twelve months — -5.4% -10.6% HELE
Better return on capitalReturn on invested capital — 1.6% -1.2% HELE
Less leveragedLower net debt / EBITDA — 8.3x 7.2x COTY
Higher dividend yieldTrailing dividend yield 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% –
Better 1-year returnPrice return, last 12 months -54.4% +45.7% -19.3% HELE
Better 5-year returnAnnualised price return, 5 years -38.2%/yr -33.4%/yr -17.2%/yr COTY
Less volatileAnnualised volatility, 1 year 100.5% 54.0% 51.6% COTY
Higher overall scoreMean of the five percentile scores vs peers — 44/100 38/100 HELE

Percentile Scorecard

MLKMFHELECOTY

Each axis is the mean percentile of its metrics against the company's industry group. 100 is the best in the group, 50 the middle.

Scores by Axis

AxisMLKMFHELECOTY
Valuation – 78 #10 of 42 77 #13 of 52
Growth – 39 #26 of 42 20 #40 of 50
Profitability – 49 #21 of 40 39 #28 of 45
Financial Health 67 #19 of 56 30 #31 of 44 26 #42 of 56
Shareholder Returns – 22 #22 of 28 30 #22 of 31
Overall – 44 38
  • MLKMF ranked among 60 companies in Household and Personal Products
  • HELE ranked among 45 companies in Household Durables
  • COTY ranked among 60 companies in Household and Personal Products

Price Performance

Price return, split-adjusted, before dividends. Click a name to hide or show it.

Returns

PeriodMLKMFHELECOTYSPY
1 month -14.6%+2.0%+25.4% -0.2%
3 months -47.3%+1.2%+18.6% +3.9%
6 months +12.8%+24.5%+35.1% +8.2%
Year to date -53.2%+37.4%+7.5% +12.9%
1 year -54.4%+45.7%-19.3% +12.3%
3 years -90.0%-69.8%-63.8% +87.4%
3 years, per year -53.6%-32.9%-28.7% +23.3%
5 years -90.9%-86.9%-61.0% +67.9%
5 years, per year -38.2%-33.4%-17.2% +10.9%
10 years —-62.6%-85.4% +261.1%
10 years, per year —-9.4%-17.5% +13.7%

Risk

MeasureMLKMFHELECOTYSPY
Volatility, 1Y 100.5%54.0%51.6% 12.7%
Downside volatility, 1Y 88.2%48.3%56.8% 12.7%
Beta vs S&P 500, 1Y 1.350.970.65 1.00
Return / volatility, 1Y -0.540.85-0.37 0.97
Max drawdown, 5Y -93.5%-94.5%-86.0% -25.4%
From 52-week high -71.4%-3.4%-19.3% -1.2%
52-week high $3.08$30.22$4.10 $779.14
52-week low $0.75$13.88$1.85 $631.97

Valuation History

Weekly multiples on trailing twelve-month fundamentals. Negative or extreme readings (a loss year, a collapsed denominator) are left out so the chart stays readable.

MultipleMLKMFHELECOTY
P/E now vs peer median —median 18.5x -6.9xmedian 16.0x -4.7xmedian 18.5x
P/S now vs peer median —median 1.6x 0.4xmedian 0.6x 0.5xmedian 1.6x
EV/EBITDA now vs peer median —median 12.9x 17.0xmedian 9.8x 14.4xmedian 12.9x
P/FCF now vs peer median —median 18.6x 4.6xmedian 11.9x 8.4xmedian 18.6x
P/B now vs peer median 0.3xmedian 2.2x 0.8xmedian 1.2x 0.9xmedian 2.2x
PEG now vs peer median —median 0.97 0.17median 0.64 0.10median 0.97

Financial History

Reported figures by fiscal period, placed on the calendar year (or quarter) each period ended in, so companies with different fiscal years line up.

Trailing twelve monthsMLKMFHELECOTY
Revenue – $1.83B $5.81B
Gross profit – $864.98M $3.65B
Operating income – $23.94M -$81.50M
Net income – -$99.23M -$598.70M
Free cash flow – $147.21M $348.20M
EPS (diluted) – $-4.11 $-0.70
Cash & equivalents $7.82M $22.58M $176.10M
Total debt $631.43M $3.17B $3.05B
Shares (diluted) 114.07M 24.15M 877.40M
Enterprise value $30.43M $577.70M $1.79B

All Metrics

58 metrics · best in bold

Bold marks the best reading: the lowest positive value for multiples, leverage and payout, the highest for everything else. The bar under each value is its percentile against that company's own peers. Hover a value for its rank and the peer median.

Valuation

12 metrics
MetricMLKMFHELECOTY
P/E – -6.9x -4.7x
P/FCF – 4.6x 8.4x
P/Operating cash flow – 3.8x 5.4x
P/S – 0.4x 0.5x
P/B 0.3x 0.8x 0.9x
P/Tangible book 0.3x 1.4x 7.5x
EV/EBITDA – 17.0x 14.4x
EV/EBIT – 55.6x -71.0x
EV/Revenue – 0.7x 1.0x
EV/FCF – 9.0x 16.6x
EV/Operating cash flow – 7.4x 10.8x
PEG (3Y EPS CAGR) – 0.17 0.10

Growth

14 metrics
MetricMLKMFHELECOTY
Revenue growth (1Y) – 0.3% -1.5%
Revenue CAGR (3Y) – -3.1% 1.5%
Gross profit growth (1Y) – 0.5% -4.4%
Gross profit CAGR (3Y) – -1.7% 1.0%
Operating income growth (1Y) – 103.7% -133.8%
Operating income CAGR (3Y) – -52.1% -29.1%
Net income growth (1Y) – 84.9% -69.5%
Net income CAGR (3Y) – -39.6% -46.5%
EPS growth (1Y) – 85.7% -61.0%
EPS CAGR (3Y) – -39.5% -48.3%
Operating cash flow growth (1Y) – 97.1% 9.2%
Operating cash flow CAGR (3Y) – -25.9% -4.9%
Free cash flow growth (1Y) – 192.7% 25.4%
Free cash flow CAGR (3Y) – -25.7% -4.7%

Profitability

14 metrics
MetricMLKMFHELECOTY
Gross margin – 47.4% 62.9%
EBITDA margin – 4.3% 6.9%
Operating margin – 1.3% -1.4%
Pretax margin – -1.5% -10.5%
Net margin – -5.4% -10.6%
FCF margin – 8.1% 6.0%
Operating cash flow margin – 9.8% 9.3%
Return on equity – -11.7% -18.3%
Return on assets – -4.8% -5.8%
Return on invested capital – 1.6% -1.2%
Return on capital employed – 1.5% -1.1%
Asset turnover – 0.9x 0.6x
Cash conversion (OCF / net income) – -1.8x -0.9x
Stock comp / revenue – 1.0% 0.8%

Financial Health

11 metrics
MetricMLKMFHELECOTY
Debt / assets 23.1% 32.1% 29.9%
Debt / equity 0.4x 0.8x 1.0x
Net debt / EBITDA – 8.3x 7.2x
Debt / FCF – 4.6x 8.8x
Liabilities / assets 39.5% 59.3% 69.0%
Equity / assets 60.5% 40.7% 31.0%
Interest coverage – 0.5x –
Current ratio 4.8x 1.7x 0.8x
Quick ratio 0.1x 0.7x 0.3x
Cash ratio 0.1x 0.0x 0.1x
Altman Z-score – 1.74 -0.09

Shareholder Returns

7 metrics
MetricMLKMFHELECOTY
Dividend yield – – 0.0%
Net buyback yield – -0.1% –
Shareholder yield – -0.1% 0.0%
Payout ratio (earnings) – – -2.2%
Payout ratio (FCF) – – 3.8%
Dividend growth (1Y) – – -0.8%
Dividend CAGR (3Y) – – -1.2%

Analyst Estimates

Solid lines are reported fiscal-year results; dashed lines are the consensus for the years ahead. Hover a year for the analysts' high and low, and how each result compared with its estimate.

ConsensusMLKMFHELECOTY
Forward P/E – 7.8xFY2026 11.0xFY2027
EPS, next fiscal year $-0.51FY2026 $3.74FY2026 $0.30FY2027
EPS growth, next FY – +5.4%FY2026 +42.9%FY2027
EPS growth, the year after – +13.9% -13.3%
Revenue, next fiscal year $272.64MFY2026 $1.76BFY2026 $5.51BFY2027
Revenue growth, next FY +0.2%FY2026 -1.8%FY2026 -5.1%FY2027
Revenue growth, the year after +10.6% -2.6% -9.7%

Institutional Ownership

13F filings, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
HoldersMLKMFHELECOTY
Held by institutions – 96.3% 43.5%
Institutions holding – 198 313
Change in shares held, QoQ – +5.7% +14.9%
Institutions buying – 120 169
Institutions selling – 46 98
Buyers to sellers – 2.61 1.72

Return Correlation

Daily returns, last 12 months

1.00 means two stocks move in lockstep, 0 that they move independently. Pairs below about 0.5 diversify each other.

MLKMFHELECOTY
MLKMF 1.00 0.02 0.11
HELE 0.02 1.00 0.29
COTY 0.11 0.29 1.00

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is bigger, MLKMF, HELE and COTY?

Coty (COTY) is the largest by market capitalisation: Waldencast (MLKMF) $92.40M, Helen Of Troy (HELE) $667.98M, Coty (COTY) $2.93B.

Which company is growing faster?

Helen Of Troy (HELE) grew revenue fastest over the trailing twelve months: Helen Of Troy (HELE) +0.3%, Coty (COTY) -1.5%.

Which company is more profitable?

Helen Of Troy (HELE) has the highest net margin (Helen Of Troy (HELE) -5.4%, Coty (COTY) -10.6%). On return on invested capital, Helen Of Troy (HELE) leads (Helen Of Troy (HELE) 1.6%, Coty (COTY) -1.2%).

Which stock has performed better?

Over the past year Helen Of Troy (HELE) returned the most: Waldencast (MLKMF) -54.4%, Helen Of Troy (HELE) +45.7%, Coty (COTY) -19.3%. Over five years, Coty (COTY) compounded fastest (Waldencast (MLKMF) -38.2%/yr, Helen Of Troy (HELE) -33.4%/yr, Coty (COTY) -17.2%/yr). Returns are price only, before dividends.

Which pays a higher dividend?

Only one of these companies pays a dividend: Waldencast (MLKMF) 0.00%, Helen Of Troy (HELE) 0.00%, Coty (COTY) 0.00%. Waldencast (MLKMF) and Helen Of Troy (HELE) pays no regular dividend.

Which stock is riskier?

By one-year price volatility, Coty (COTY) has been the steadiest (Waldencast (MLKMF) 100.5%, Helen Of Troy (HELE) 54.0%, Coty (COTY) 51.6%). Volatility measures how widely the price swings, not the risk of the business.

Which is the better stock, MLKMF, HELE and COTY?

There is no single answer; it depends on what you are buying for. On the 12 head-to-head measures on this page, Helen Of Troy (HELE) leads on 6. Business Quant does not give investment advice; use the comparison as a starting point for your own research.

Data from SEC filings, exchange prices and consensus estimates, via Business Quant. Percentile scores compare each company with its own peer group, so two companies' scores are each relative to different peers unless you rank against the whole market. Price returns exclude dividends. Nothing on this page is investment advice.